In the end after this political kabuki dance there is no doubt in my mind that this woman will ever appear before the committee. She will have thrown a stinkbomb in the room which was her intent in the first place and refuse to appear saying she cannot get a “fair hearing”. Which would be a liar’s way of saying I cannot prove my lie.
I think you’re on to something...
It’s hard to call. I believe she’s more than willing to go the distance if she has to and give a tearful, staged performance if not to the committee, then to 60 Minutes.
But by making demands the committee can’t meet, she can walk away and say, “They didn’t give me a chance to testify in a safe environment.” The MSM has already convinced most of America he’s guilty, they’ll paint Grassley as the bad guy and that should be enough to give Corker, Flake & maybe Collins the cover to vote against him.
If her story starts to lose credibility because of what others are saying, or because she’s taking too long, then she’ll be forced to testify and close the deal.
It’s never been about whether Kavanaugh did what she alleges, it’s all been about pushing the vote past the November elections. This is nothing more than a dem strategy to prevent Trump from shifting the balance of power on SCOTUS to the conservation side. They have succeeded in pushing the vote beyond next Thursday, insuring Kavanaugh can not be in place for the start of the next term. Now she has to stall until mid-October until it too late for him before the Nov elections. Dems are hoping to control the senate until 2020 and only have 8 judges until then.
There is no doubt she will appear to testify. She has no choice now, the forces behind this cannot afford to not let this thing go the full course. Even if she doesn’t want to do it, they will make her do it.
The goal isn’t even to stop the nomination, which they wont, it’s to delegitimize him and the decisions he will write, it’s to weaken him even if he does get on the court.